WWE year in review: Top 5 rivalries of the year
Roman Reigns has had his run-ins with The AuthorityAnother year has gone by, and it has been a big one. Younger wrestlers have shined, older wrestlers have given their all, and of course, there have been some great rivalries. What’s special about this year is that many of the rivalries went on for long stretches of time, which is always welcome in my book.That does mean, however, that there weren’t that many rivalries that stood out. Which also isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Of course, there were one or two spectacular ones, but for the most part, there was really no Daniel Bryan vs The Authority or SHIELD vs Evolution like there was last year.Read on, though, as the last entry on the list is indeed something special.Here are the top five rivalries in WWE in 2015 (opinionised).
#5 The Authority vs Sting
Technically, this rivalry also counts as one from last year, but I’ll count it in this list because most of it did take place this year.
Sting vs The Authority basically took place in two chapters, the first of which culminated with Sting losing to Triple H at WrestleMania and the second of which culminated with Sting losing to Seth Rollins at Night Of Champions.
That might seem stale, but it wasn’t. In both instances, the build-up was well done. The stakes were high – in the first case, it was Sting’s debut match, and in the second, it was for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
The spectacle of seeing Sting gives this rivalry some extra points. He elevated both Triple H and Seth Rollins, and was genuinely fun to function watch. He terrorised both of them with mind games, which were both serious and goofy.
The reason this is so low because it happened for a short time at the start of the year, took a hiatus of a few months, then resumed for a month, only to end. If it was continuous, it could have been higher.